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How do LLMs Compute Verbal Confidence

Arthur Conmy, Dharshan Kumaran, Federico Barbero, Petar Veli\v{c}kovi\'c, Simon Osindero, Viorica Patraucean

arxiv:2603.17839 v3 · 2026-03-18 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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How LLMs Detect and Correct Their Own Errors: The Role of Internal Confidence Signals
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Canonical hash

56b194b754f656d818fe69a3672d6aed0a210f8de391e093330c61f7b9bc1739

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arxiv: 2603.17839 · arxiv_version: 2603.17839v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.17839 · pith_short_12: K2YZJN2U6ZLN · pith_short_16: K2YZJN2U6ZLNQGH6 · pith_short_8: K2YZJN2U
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Verify this Pith Number yourself 
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/K2YZJN2U6ZLNQGH6NGRWOLLK5U \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 56b194b754f656d818fe69a3672d6aed0a210f8de391e093330c61f7b9bc1739
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    "submitted_at": "2026-03-18T15:31:43Z",
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